Worst Cake Ever.
"Comic Book Guy" from the Simpsons
Event: "That Takes The Cake" 2011
7th Annual Sugar Art Show & Cake Competition (Austin, TX)
7th Annual Sugar Art Show & Cake Competition (Austin, TX)
Division: Adult Intermediate
Style: Sculpted
Media: cake, modeling chocolate, rice cereal treats, gumpaste, food coloring, candy coating, PVC piping, metal flanges, wood boards
Since I knew the show theme was "Comic Books", I've been wanting to make this guy for a long time. This is my first cake using PVC for internal structure. He didn't really turn out how I wanted due to time constraints, but he still took home 3rd place.
I finished him at 3:30 in the morning on the day of the show. He was heavy, but he was as sturdy as a rock. He has 1/2" pipe in each leg, secured to the wooden base by adapters and metal flanges. I smooshed rice cereal treats and formed legs, feet, and his butt. I then covered that with gumpaste. After drying over night, his bottom half not going to budge for nobody!
I had plenty of cake to play with. Carving went well and I used cake spackle to build up any other areas. He's got some pink icing inside because I had a lot of pink left over from a failed buttercream-only cake. His head is rice cereal treats over the end of his spinal pipe. Modeling chocolate provided the rest of his flesh, hair, and clothing. It was so late in the night, I was completely out of time and couldn't do any of the finishing touches that I would have liked. The judges specifically called them out too: shoelaces, belly button, etc. Oh well, maybe next year.
He was still very nice to slice into ... had my stop myself from chowing down. No one should eat competition cake that's been sitting in a convention center for 3 days in front of hundreds of people!
I had plenty of cake to play with. Carving went well and I used cake spackle to build up any other areas. He's got some pink icing inside because I had a lot of pink left over from a failed buttercream-only cake. His head is rice cereal treats over the end of his spinal pipe. Modeling chocolate provided the rest of his flesh, hair, and clothing. It was so late in the night, I was completely out of time and couldn't do any of the finishing touches that I would have liked. The judges specifically called them out too: shoelaces, belly button, etc. Oh well, maybe next year.
He was still very nice to slice into ... had my stop myself from chowing down. No one should eat competition cake that's been sitting in a convention center for 3 days in front of hundreds of people!
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